Public transportation users in the Greater Boston area will be able to use a contactless debit or credit card to pay for their fares on buses, Green Line trolleys, Mattapan Line trolleys, and at all gated subway stations from 1 August 2024, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has announced... More
Public transportation users in Toronto can now add their Presto transit card to Apple Wallet and then use their iPhone or Apple Watch to tap in and out of transit services across Canada’s Greater Toronto and Hamilton region... More
The European Commission has agreed to accept Apple’s proposal to open up access to the iPhone’s NFC functionality via Host Card Emulation (HCE) — with modifications that will also make it possible for iPhones to support person-to-person and merchant transactions via SoftPOS... More
Visa has rolled out a Digital Emergency Card Replacement service that makes it possible for cardholders to instantly receive a digital replacement for a lost or stolen card, via text or email, anywhere in the world. ... More
Alipay, China’s leading mobile payments provider and the pioneer of QR mobile payments, has launched a new service that adds support for NFC contactless payments, marking the first time the technology has been adopted by a major player in the world’s largest mobile payments market... More
Nine in ten of the 3.2bn smart payment cards and modules shipped in 2023 included support for contactless payments “as consumers in all markets embrace touch free payments and tap-to-pay goes mainstream”, the Smart Payment Association reports... More
Visitors to Venice can now use a contactless debit or credit card to pay for fares on any of the city’s public transportation services, including water buses, speedboats, motorboats, ferries, buses and trams... More
The apparel industry alone will be responsible for issuing more than 62.5bn Digital Product Passports a year by 2030, ABI Research predicts, generating annual revenues of US$1.59bn for suppliers of supporting IT and software... More
Sports fans attending this year’s Wimbledon tennis tournament can purchase a QR refill pass that gives them the ability to refill their water bottle at any of a number of Evian mineral water refill stations located around the All England Lawn Tennis Club, rather than buying their mineral water in a plastic bottle or using a free tap water refill station... More
The NFC Forum has detailed its vision for its planned introduction of Multi-Purpose Taps, which will enable multiple functions to be actioned via a single tap of an NFC device, in a new paper which is available to download from the standards body’s website... More
French domestic card payments network Cartes Bancaires (CB) has begun the rollout of Sans Contact Plus, a new service that lets consumers make contactless card payments for amounts over the standard €50 transaction limit by entering their PIN at the point-of-sale... More
Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone softPOS technology is now live in Germany, Apple has announced, enabling merchants across the country to accept contactless payments on their mobile phone with no additional hardware required... More
Payment service providers will be able to charge merchants a fee for enabling them to accept digital euro transactions, the European Central Bank (ECB) has revealed, but a cap will be placed on the amount that it will be possible for them to charge... More
Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone softPOS technology is now live on all Delta Air Lines US domestic flights, enabling flight attendants to use standard iPhones to accept contactless payments from passengers for snack, premium beverage and other onboard items... More
Adoption of softPOS payment solutions by smaller businesses will drive a 113% increase in contactless payment transaction values by 2029, Juniper Research predicts... More
The EU has agreed to accept Apple’s proposal to provide developers “with free access to its NFC technology on iOS devices and without having to use Apple Pay or Apple Wallet”, the Financial Times reports... More
The Bank of China is conducting a pilot in the city of Shenzhen of a new service that makes it possible for merchants to accept contactless digital currency payments on standard NFC mobile phones... More
Global POS terminal transaction values will total US$17 trillion this year and grow by 25% to $21.1tn a year by 2028, Juniper Research has forecast... More
PARTNER NEWS: STMicroelectronics has introduced a new NFC tag chip that uses state-of-the-art blockchain-compatible elliptic curve cryptography to strengthen the level of security available to brands looking to use NFC to protect their products... More
More than 80% of the respondents to a survey conducted by ABI Research on behalf of the NFC Forum said they have used a smartphone or smartwatch to make a contactless payment... More